Harry Rosenfeld

HARRY ROSENFELD, FORMER TIMES UNION EDITOR, TO SPEAK AT SAINT ROSE

Longtime Newspaperman to Discuss New Book and Events that Shaped His Life and Journalism

ALBANY (August 15, 2013) -- The College of Saint Rose presents an evening with distinguished newspaper editor Harry Rosenfeld, who will discuss his new book, From Kristallnacht to Watergate: Memoirs of a Newspaperman.

The program will take place Monday, September 30, at 7:30 p.m. in the Carl E. Touhey Forum, Thelma P. Lally School of Education, 1009 Madison Ave., Albany.

Rosenfeld will be joined by Times Union Editor Rex Smith for a conversation about the events in the book and the practice of journalism. A question-and-answer session and book signing will follow.

The program is free and open to the public and will be preceded by a reception at 7 p.m.

Rosenfeld is editor-at-large, an editorial board member and a consultant at the Times Union in Albany, where he previously was editor. Before that, he was metro editor at The Washington Post, where he managed reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in the Watergate investigation that earned the newspaper a Pulitzer gold medal for public service. Earlier in his career, he was an editor at the New York Herald Tribune.

Born in Berlin, Rosenfeld was a child when Kristallnacht occurred in November 1938. He saw his synagogue burned and Jewish-owned businesses destroyed – the shattering of their glass windows gave the pogrom its name. Weeks before, his father had been seized by the Gestapo. Once reunited, the family fled to the United States in 1939. Rosenfeld traces his interest in journalism and the importance of holding government accountable to those events in his early life.

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